Machine for distributing flavoring matter upon tobacco.



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PIERRE LORILLARD, JR., OF TUXEDO, AND EDWARD G. TREMAINE, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNORS TO TI-IE'P. LORILLARD COMPANY, OF

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MACHINE FOR DISTRIBUTlNG FLAVORING MATTER UPON TOBACCO.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 643,193, dated February 13, 1900. Application filed December 22, 1896. Serial No. 616,609- (No modelfi To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, PIERRE LORILLARD, Jr., of Tuxedo, in the county of Orange, and EDWARD G. TREMAINE, of New York, (Brooklyn,) in the county of Kings, State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Machines for Distributing Flavoring Matter upon Tobacco, of which the following is a specification.

\Ve will describe a machine embodying our improvement and then point out the novel features in claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of a machine embodying our improvement. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a central longitudinal vertical section of the same. Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section of certain parts.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all figures.

A designates a belt upon which tobacco is laid and by which it is carried along at a mod erate speed. i

B designates a belt arranged above the belt A and passing around rollers B B These rollers are mounted in bearings 1) that are secured to a frame 0, which may be of any suitable construction and materials. The bearings b are shown as connected to the frame O by bolts b extending vertically through the hearings in a portion of the frame, slots being formed lengthwise of the latter, so as to provide for shifting the bearings Z) toward and from the other bearings 6 In addition to the bolts 21 there are combined with the bearings b adj listing-screws 6 these being fitted to tapped holes in lugs b extending upwardly from the frame 0 and impinging against the bearings 12.

Adjacent the side edges of the belt B are ledges D D, which are .connected with the side pieces of the frame. As here shown, the

connection is made by means of screws cl, passing through vertical slots in portions of the frame 0 and engaging with tapped holes in vertical side flanges, with which the ledges D D are provided. Thus provision is afforded for raising and lowering the ledges D D It will be seen by reference to Fig. 4

that the ledges extend over the side edges of the belt B.

E designates a box containing the flavoring material which is to be distributed upon the tobacco. As shown, it is of rectangular form and mounted upon a bracket O, forming an appurtenance of the frame 0, it being secured thereto bymeans of bolts 0. Its position is such that it projects over the belt B, and it is open on the side Whichis the near est to that belt. An attendant removes and deposits the flavoring material upon the belt B. Afterward he is to level it off by taking a straight-edge rule or equivalent device and sliding it along the ledges D D As the ledges will therefore determine the depth of the flavoring material upon the belt they constitute gages. The, uniform layer thus produced will be carried forward by the movement of the belt. The speed of the belt is intended to be very slow. Motion may be imparted to it in any desirable manner. In the present instance it is transmitted through a sprocket-chain F, engaging with a sprocketwheel F, that is affixed to one of the journals of the roller B Adjacent to the roller B are two rotary brushes G G the former of which is journaled in a bracket C forming an appurtenance of the frame 0, so as to be a short dis tance above the roller B and a little beyond a vertical plane intersecting the axis of that roller. It is not intended to contact with the belt B, but only to work into such close proximity therewith as to remove a portion of the flavoring material therefrom. What is thus removed will fall off the belt B onto the tobacco which is carried below it by the belt A. Any of the flavoring material adhering to the belt will be removed by the other brush-roller G the latter being arranged upon the other side of a vertical plane intersecting the axis of the roller B and below the belt B, its position being such that it will contact with the belt and remove-everything from it. Whatever is thus removed will also fall upon the tobacco carried by the belt A.

The brushes G G may be driven by any suitable means-as, for example, by means of a sprocket-chain II engaging with sprocket-- wheels H 11*, affiXed to corresponding journals of the brushes.

To afford provision for adjusting the 5 brushes toward and from the belt B, their bearings g 9 will preferably be adjustable with reference to the frame 0 or an appurtenance thereof and clamped in position by means of screws 9 passing through slots in the 10 frame 0 or appurtenance thereof and engaging with tapped holes in the bearings of the brushes. Adjusting-screws g g may be combined with tapped holes in portions or appurtenances of the frame 0 and made to im- [5 pinge against the bearings.

While we have only described the improvement with reference to the treatment of tobacco, we desire to monopolize it for all other substances for whose treatment it is applicazo ble, and for the purpose of the claims we mean by the term tobacco to cover as equivalents all materials for whose treatment our improvement may be used.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a machine for distributing flavoring matter upon tobacco, the combination with a continuous belt adapted to carry the flavoring material, and distribute it upon the to- 0 bacco carried bya traveling support beneath,

of a device for removing the flavoring material from said beltto the tobacco carried by the traveling support beneath; said device consisting in combination, of two rotary brushes,

3 5 the first of said brushes being adapted to remove by its rotation the greater portion of the flavoring material from said belt, and the second thereof by its rotation to complete the removal, by brushing the belt, the material re- 0 moved in both cases falling upon the tobacco,

substantially as specified.

2. In a machine for distributing flavoring matter upon tobacco, the combination with a continuous belt adapted to carry the flavoring material, and distribute it upon the tobacco carried by a traveling support beneath, of a gage in connection with said belt for regulating the quantity of flavoring material spread thereon; said gage consisting of two ledges, one upon either side of said belt, and extend- 5o ing over it in order to retain the material thereon, said ledges being adjustable in respect to their height above said belt, so that by the use of a straight-edge, a uniform 'layer of any desired thickness maybe obtained, substantially as specified.

3. In a machine for distributing flavoring matter upon tobacco, the combination with a traveling support upon which the tobacco to be flavored is spread, of a traveling belt 10- 6o cated adjacent said support and adapted to carry the flavoring matter, a rotatable brush located in proximity to said belt for removing some of the flavoring matter therefrom, a second rotatable brush for removing the remain ing portion of flavoring matter, and means for producing the travel of said belt and support and rotation of the brushes.

4:. In a machine for distributing flavoring matter upon tobacco, the combination witha 7o traveling support upon which the tobacco to be flavored is spread, of a traveling belt located adjacent to said traveling support, and adapted to carry the flavoring material, a gage for regulating the quantity of flavoring matter spread on said belt, rotatable brushes for removing the flavoring matter therefrom, and means for producing the travel of said belt and support and rotation of the brushes.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PIERRE LORILLARD, JR. EDWARD G. TREMAINE.

\Vitnesses:

O. A. LEONARD, FRED. Con. 

